Not at first, but I think I got there eventually.
By the time he was done, I pretty much detested that fool.
This is pretty much how it went for me and from what I can tell; most people who identified with the Tea Party.
It was never about his skin pigment; it was his extreme anti-American ideology and the content of his character that caused me to develop a visceral hate for him in a way I had never experienced before. I didn't understand why the congress didn't do more to stop him but I guess in their way they did what they thought they could get away with and that's when obola went nuclear with the EO's. By pulling the reigns on our immigration laws, giving Iran nukes, and scores of other similar actions he made the entire country less safe and now we are seeing the result of that.
My hatred of that man was visceral from the moment he said hope and change, and fundamental transformation. So visceral it even surprised me I have forgiven most of those I feel have done wrong by me. That said I look for solutions not retribution to things Obama imposed on this nation.